William MarshaIl (Twilight's Last Gleaming, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Maverick) stars as African Prince Mamuwalde in Blacula, the avant-garde bIaxpIoitation horror film that's both subversive and refreshingIy entertaining. ln 1780, Mamuwalde traveIs to Transylvania seeking Count DracuIa's (CharIes Macaulay, Splash, Star Trek) support for the aboIition of the sIave trade between their countries. Instead, Dracula curses the prince by transforming him into a vampire and locking him in a coffin. Two centuries Iater, Blacula is set free in modern day Los Angeles to terrorize the city in his nightIy quest for bIood. WiIliam Crain (Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde, TV's The Dukes of Hazzard) directs and Vonetta McGee (Hammer, The Eiger Sanction, Repo Man, The Great SiIence), Denise NichoIas (Let's Do lt Again, TV's In the Heat of the Night, Room 222), Elisha Cook (Rosemary's Baby, The KllIing, House on Haunted HIlI) and Thalmus Rasulala (Friday Foster, New Jack City, Above the Law) co-star. |